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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (18 children)

I’m getting a bit tired of seeing the communism/capitalism dichotomy. Guys let’s be pluralistic or at least see these two as a scale. There are a lot of solutions in between. Government failures exist just as much as market failures. Let’s focus on the actual root causes of our problems: externalities, rent seeking, private land ownership, too long patents, public good provision, overly complex legal system, information asymmetries in labor markets. We need unions, free health care, cheaper education, carbon taxes, land value taxes, simplified legal system that can’t be taken advantage of. Stop this capitalism vs communism bullshit. That’s not the cause of all this. Your real enemy is “rentier capitalism”.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

communism hasn't been tried enough

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (3 children)

A certain Mr. Lenin would like a word

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

The CIA is not very happy about that

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